As we see from the examples in (55):
(55) (a) John will put [NPthe car] [PPin the garage](55) (b) ✽John will put [NPthe car](55) (c) ✽John will put [PPin the garage](55) (d) ✽John will put
the Verb putsubcategorizes (i.e. ‘takesʼ) obligatory NP and PP complements (to simplify exposition here, we ignore the fact that the subcategorization properties of put may be predictable from its thematic properties, and from general word-order principles such as the STRICT ADJACENCY CONDITION).